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* Represents the first collection of work in education to grapple with what Alain Badiou might mean for the enterprise of schooling * Takes up Badiou's challenge to contemporary and conventional Anglo-American doxa * Includes original essays by experts in several different educational fields .

Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors.

Foreword (Michael A. Peters).

Introduction: Alain Badiou: ‘Becoming subject’ to education (Kent den Heyer).

1. Badiou, Pedagogy and the Arts (Thomas E. Peterson).

2. Badiou’s Challenge to Art and its Education: Or, ‘art cannot be taught—it can however educate!’ (Jan Jagodzinski).

3. Alain Badiou, Jacques Lacan and the Ethics of Teaching (Peter M. Taubman).

4. Reconceptualizing Professional Development for Curriculum Leadership: Inspired by John Dewey and informed by Alain Badiou (Kathleen R. Kesson and James G. Henderson).

5. The Obliteration of Truth by Management: Badiou, St. Paul and the question of economic managerialism in education (Anna Strhan).

6. Militants of Truth, Communities of Equality: Badiou and the ignorant schoolmaster (Charles Andrew Barbour).

Index.

Thinking Education Through Alain Badiou

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      Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Published 17 September 2010
      ISBN-13 9781444337426
      978-1444337426
      ISBN-10 1444337424
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      * Represents the first collection of work in education to grapple with what Alain Badiou might mean for the enterprise of schooling * Takes up Badiou's challenge to contemporary and conventional Anglo-American doxa * Includes original essays by experts in several different educational fields .

      Table of Contents
      Notes on Contributors.

      Foreword (Michael A. Peters).

      Introduction: Alain Badiou: ‘Becoming subject’ to education (Kent den Heyer).

      1. Badiou, Pedagogy and the Arts (Thomas E. Peterson).

      2. Badiou’s Challenge to Art and its Education: Or, ‘art cannot be taught—it can however educate!’ (Jan Jagodzinski).

      3. Alain Badiou, Jacques Lacan and the Ethics of Teaching (Peter M. Taubman).

      4. Reconceptualizing Professional Development for Curriculum Leadership: Inspired by John Dewey and informed by Alain Badiou (Kathleen R. Kesson and James G. Henderson).

      5. The Obliteration of Truth by Management: Badiou, St. Paul and the question of economic managerialism in education (Anna Strhan).

      6. Militants of Truth, Communities of Equality: Badiou and the ignorant schoolmaster (Charles Andrew Barbour).

      Index.

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